{"id":5837,"date":"2022-01-05T17:02:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/05\/a-couple-of-italian-icons\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T17:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:02:47","slug":"a-couple-of-italian-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/05\/a-couple-of-italian-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"A Couple of Italian Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>(February 7, 2021) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> On this night I got into the way-back machine and I opened a pair of Italian icons &#8211; one from the car world and the other from the wine world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First I started with a Lamborghini (the only one I am sure to ever own or afford) then a single vineyard Banfi wine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-5835\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Banfi_Lambo_2b.jpg\" alt=\"Lamborghini\" style=\"margin-left: 7px; float: right;\" width=\"135\" height=\"279\" \/>Lamborghini 2000 Campoleone<\/strong><\/span> <em>(Umbria)<\/em> &#8211; Easily 20 years old and still showing a liveliness and pep. Nice dark fruit and smoky notes, and it&#8217;s really spicy on the finish; that continues right through to the finish where is develops a spicy-mocha-like linger. It&#8217;s still quite alive and well, sure there are elements of dried cherry and dried fruit languishing in there, but they add to the enjoyment of this wine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-5836\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Banfi_Lambo_2a.jpg\" alt=\"Banfi\" style=\"margin-right: 7px; float: left;\" width=\"165\" height=\"279\" \/>Banfi 1998 Poggio Alle Mure &#8211; Brunello di Montalcino<\/strong><\/span> <em>(Tuscany)<\/em> &#8211; Stepping back 2 year and we have this Banfi single vineyard Brunello. In the glass is has a really closed off nose that gives away nothing that is to be found on the palate. once there it&#8217;s fresh leather, coffee bean, cedar and cinnamon and then even develops some mocha &#8230; this is really tasty stuff and it comes across younger than the Lamborghini.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; (February 7, 2021) &#8230; On this night I got into the way-back machine and I opened a pair of Italian icons &#8211; one from the car world and the other from the wine world. First I started with a Lamborghini (the only one I am sure to ever own or afford) then a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-drinking-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}